Well, interesting you mention bryopsis. This segues nicely to my nutrient story.
As my thread chronicles, I have been watching n and p and manipulating them a bit using biopellets and a mix of cano3 and carbohydrates. When p disappeared, I stopped the cano3/honey/vodka/vinegar and relied on the mix of aio/ecobac+ pellets as the n and p were staying around 2ppm n and .03 ish p.
Well, as I began adding fish to the system and adding more and more food, my nutrient began to drop! I could not get a reading for n or p. Some of my new acros were getting more and more pale and I even lost a couple. I was up to 3 handfulls of frozen food a day- I'm talking 30- yes 30 cubes of frozen food a day and I couldn't get a nutrient reading. This happening while hair algea, red and green slime and bryopsis was growing in my frag system and some bryopsis in the dt.
So finally, I just removed all of the pellets. Clearly the dsb and cheato- as well as every other algea in the system was absorbing all the n and p.
Then!... Last weekend, a bubble tip anemone I had in a frag tank got sucked into and shredded by a power head and the whole system went cloudy.
I added some carbon and a couple days later I added carbon again and it cleared a bit but ever since, the tank will not clear. I can only assume that I now have an algea bloom in the water.
I tested last night and got .25 n and .05 p. Perfectly fine numbers but my tank is still cloudy and my corals are still pale.
So.. I have now turned off all the lights and will leave the tank blacked out for 48 hours...
I'm not sure if this will stop the algea bloom. I'll see what happens when I turn the lights back on on Wednesday morning..
I'm wondering how dramatically the nutrients will jump after the lights have been off 48 hours.. Hopefully the dsb will do some overtime. I'll reduce food for the next two days as well..
So, going forward, I will try to rely on cheato and dsb for nutrient control and add pellets if necessary down the road.
But despite having a mag of 1700+, the bryopsis didn't care at all, it just kept growing.
So, I obviously have no balance in the system in terms of nutrient control at the moment..
I guess we'll see what happens next...